The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 115
... Perhaps he might have truckled down , " Like other brethren of his gown : " For party he would fearce have bled " I fay no more because he's dead " What writings has he left behind I hear they're of a different kind : A few in verfe ...
... Perhaps he might have truckled down , " Like other brethren of his gown : " For party he would fearce have bled " I fay no more because he's dead " What writings has he left behind I hear they're of a different kind : A few in verfe ...
Page 345
... perhaps owing to the vitiated tafte of the times in which he lived . To the fame caufe , perhaps , may be attributed his unneceffary and oftentatious fhew of learning , and his too frequent allufions to the heathen fables , which are ...
... perhaps owing to the vitiated tafte of the times in which he lived . To the fame caufe , perhaps , may be attributed his unneceffary and oftentatious fhew of learning , and his too frequent allufions to the heathen fables , which are ...
Page 359
... perhaps , is one of the most excep- tionable parts of his work ; tho ' it must be acknow- ledged that he has made the beft ufe of a fiction of this kind that could be conceived . He has alfo improved on the Greek and Latin poets in his ...
... perhaps , is one of the most excep- tionable parts of his work ; tho ' it must be acknow- ledged that he has made the beft ufe of a fiction of this kind that could be conceived . He has alfo improved on the Greek and Latin poets in his ...
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